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View article: Health Communication in the Age of Platforms: Drivers of Misinformation and the Crisis of Medical Expertise
Health Communication in the Age of Platforms: Drivers of Misinformation and the Crisis of Medical Expertise Open
Misinformation has emerged as a significant threat to both society and public health, with social media acting as a major conduit for its dissemination. This contributes to harmful health outcomes and undermines trust in authoritative inst…
View article: Social Media Campaigning in Greece: The Case of the 2023 National Parliamentary Elections
Social Media Campaigning in Greece: The Case of the 2023 National Parliamentary Elections Open
In contemporary democracies, social media platforms are widely used for political campaigning, with political figures seeking to connect with diverse segments of the public. This study aims to illuminate the implementation of online politi…
View article: Political Communication in the Age of Platforms
Political Communication in the Age of Platforms Open
Political communication has been extensively studied through both the broader context of societal and political systems, as well as through the lens of mediatization, which emphasizes the intersection of political and media logics. Within …
View article: Environmental Politics: Could Social Media in Greece Foster the Ground for an Alternative Environmental Agenda?
Environmental Politics: Could Social Media in Greece Foster the Ground for an Alternative Environmental Agenda? Open
The sharing of news across various social media platforms has become an integral part of our daily information intake. But our understanding of the specific types of environmental news stories that gain widespread traction across diverse m…
View article: Talking Green on social media: An exploratory study of online environmental communication in Greece
Talking Green on social media: An exploratory study of online environmental communication in Greece Open
Traditional news media have long been the primary source of information on environmental issues, influencing public perceptions and shaping discourse on ecological sustainability. Media representations play a central role in forming public…
View article: Future of Gender and Gender Equality Online
Future of Gender and Gender Equality Online Open
The emergence and growth of the internet and social media platforms have engendered significant transformations in everyday life, affecting not only society’s most innermost life but also its structural organization. This digital realm imp…
View article: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: analyzing anti-vaccine rhetoric on Greek Facebook
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: analyzing anti-vaccine rhetoric on Greek Facebook Open
Purpose The distinction between beliefs and facts, as well as between science and pseudoscience, appears to be hazy in the post-truth era. This study draws inspiration from public discourse concerning the safety of COVID-19 vaccines during…
View article: Medical science in peril? analyzing the anti-vaccine rhetoric on greek facebook in the COVID-19 era
Medical science in peril? analyzing the anti-vaccine rhetoric on greek facebook in the COVID-19 era Open
In the post truth era the limits between facts and beliefs, science and pseudo-science seem to be quite blurred. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, provide the ideal vehicle for the widespread sharing of misinformation, by fostering…
View article: Public Service Media in the Platform Era: The Cases of Britain, Denmark, and Greece
Public Service Media in the Platform Era: The Cases of Britain, Denmark, and Greece Open
Public service media (PSM) are grappling with structural shifts in the audio-visual sector, notably the shift of audiences towards over-the-top (OTT) or subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services. They have also heavily invested in onlin…
View article: Consumption patterns on mainstream SVoD services platforms across 10 European countries
Consumption patterns on mainstream SVoD services platforms across 10 European countries Open
Over the last years, media viewing behaviors have undergone remarkable changes resulting from the wide availability of streaming services and VoD platforms. Competition between European and American content has left the former in a dire si…
View article: Mapping Europeanization in the Greek online public sphere: Assessing the Europeanizing dynamics of social media
Mapping Europeanization in the Greek online public sphere: Assessing the Europeanizing dynamics of social media Open
For more than a decade, following the peak of the debt crisis, Greece has been facing multiple challenges. Amongthem, a pandemic (COVID-19) that brought the global and thus the Greek economy to a halt, an energy crisis that threatens to fl…
View article: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Greek Media
The Impact of Covid-19 on the Greek Media Open
It is widely recognized that Greece effectively managed the COVID-19 pandemic crisis through the early implementation of stringent measures and the imposition of lockdowns, similar to strategies adopted by other nations. Another noteworthy…
View article: From Europeanisation to EU-ization: The Media Case
From Europeanisation to EU-ization: The Media Case Open
It is widely argued that the success of the European Union has delivered more than half a century of peace, stability, and prosperity in Europe, and that this is the outcome of the Europeanization process. In this paper we support the idea…
View article: The Media in Europe 1990–2020
The Media in Europe 1990–2020 Open
The European media landscape has changed dramatically in the last 30 years. Initially were the privatization and commercialization of the broadcasting sector that led to an increase of TV channels and at the same time the decline of the pr…
View article: The Media in Southern Europe: Continuities, Changes and Challenges
The Media in Southern Europe: Continuities, Changes and Challenges Open
The media systems of Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Malta, Greece, Cyprus and Turkey represent what Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini have proposed as the Southern European or polarised pluralistic model. Regardless of their differences, th…
View article: On Western and Eastern Media Systems: Continuities and Discontinuities
On Western and Eastern Media Systems: Continuities and Discontinuities Open
This chapter aims to discuss the relevant literature related to Mancini and Hallin’s comparative media systems model, taking into account the case of the Eastern European media as well. It is tried to draw the main features of the so-calle…
View article: The Media Systems in Europe
The Media Systems in Europe Open
This open access book examines media systems in Europe and the evolution of the European media landscape since 1990.
View article: Introduction
Introduction Open
The media in Europe have radically changed since 1990. But even within Europe, the processes or mechanisms of “oversight” varied according to individual political and cultural traditions. In effect a major element of the European media has…
View article: Conclusions
Conclusions Open
The media systems in Europe have followed the developments in technology and globalization processes, resulting in the fading of concrete borderlines between and across them, paving the way for the establishment of the ‘platform society’. …
View article: Patterns in media production: regional models
Patterns in media production: regional models Open
The report analyses the regional patterns in media production at regional level (Nordic, Western, Eastern, and Mediterranean) and their relation with the national and the European level.
View article: Europeanisation: operational definition
Europeanisation: operational definition Open
The report analyses the process that leads to the operational definition of Europeanization and its outcomes as well as on its different usages within the EUMEPLAT Work Packages. It is divided in two sections, the first one on the operatio…
View article: Patterns in media consumption: regional models
Patterns in media consumption: regional models Open
The report analyses the main media consumption trends at regional level (Nordic, Western, Eastern, and Mediterranean) and their relation with the national and the European level.
View article: Patterns in media production: regional models
Patterns in media production: regional models Open
The report analyses the regional patterns in media production at regional level (Nordic, Western, Eastern, and Mediterranean) and their relation with the national and the European level. A revised version of the report was published by the…
View article: Event-, Politics-, and Audience-Driven News
Event-, Politics-, and Audience-Driven News Open
This chapter focuses on trends in reporting over time. It examines the presence of populist key messages in European newspapers coverage of immigration and commentaries on current political events, at two points in time, spring 2016 and sp…
View article: Information and news inequalities
Information and news inequalities Open
Early optimistic internet evangelists addressed news and information as an area in which digital technologies would eradicate social inequality; social networks, social media and other forms of grassroot or Indymedia would establish a powe…
View article: Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?
Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy? Open
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of the International Communication Association on 15 March 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/23808985.2017.1288551.
View article: Our goal: Comparing news performance
Our goal: Comparing news performance Open
Democracy theory expects the news media to serve several roles: informing citizens about political actors and their ideas, interpreting the actions of both politicians and their opponents, scrutinizing those in power, and engaging citizens…
View article: Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries
Why Are “Others” So Polarized? Perceived Political Polarization and Media Use in 10 Countries Open
This study tests the associations between news media use and perceived political polarization, conceptualized as citizens’ beliefs about partisan divides among major political parties. Relying on representative surveys in Canada, Colombia,…
View article: Athenian University Students on Facebook and Privacy: A Fair “Trade-Off ”?
Athenian University Students on Facebook and Privacy: A Fair “Trade-Off ”? Open
This article explores how Athenian university students “manage” their privacy on Facebook while socially interacting with other users. Survey data of undergraduate students in Athens reveal that the social network site use “validates” and …